Auto-Deployment Setup—Installing PacketShapers

PacketShapers must be correctly installed on the network and powered on before the units can be deployed via the PolicyCenter auto-deployment feature. The PacketShaper will only recognize a auto-deploy message received through the unit's OUTSIDE port.

Although where and how you install a PacketShaper varies depending upon your network topology, PacketShapers at branch offices generally sit between a WAN-link and/or Internet-link router, and a network hub or switch. The following procedure will connect a PacketShaper to this most common network topology. For complete details on installing a PacketShaper into this and other, more complex network topologies, see the PacketShaper Getting Started Guide [PDF].

1. On the router, disconnect the cable that goes to the switch or hub.
   
   
2. Reconnect this cable to the PacketShaper’s front port labeled INSIDE.
   
   
3. Using the orange crossover cable included with the PacketShaper, connect the OUTSIDE port on the front of the PacketShaper to the router.
   
   
4. Connect the power cord(s) to the PacketShaper’s outlet(s)and plug the other end into AC power. If the unit has two power supplies, connect the power cords to outlets on separate circuit breakers.
   
   
5. If there is a power switch on the back of the PacketShaper, turn the power on.

Note: If an unconfigured PacketShaper 3500 or 7500 unit is connected to the network only via that unit's management port, the unit can be auto-deployed through a subnet broadcast that does not specify a target IP. Note, however, that if a router between your PolicyCenter server and the unconfigured unit does not forward the subnet broadcast packets, the unit will not receive the autodeploy message.

PacketGuide™ for PacketWise® 7.4